I'm literally always thinking about this

My barber once said, "Oh, you got that Keith Urban cut," and those words have haunted me since

Who else melting into a molecular texture this weekend?

Liberals are great because they feel they need to have something like an idea, but their idea is that things kinda inexplicably happen

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates. The true acrobat is one who is consigned to immobility inside the circle. --Deleuze

Yooo

The phenomenological hypothesis is perhaps insufficient because it merely invokes the lived body. But the lived body is still a paltry thing in comparison with a profound and almost unlivable Power. --Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

Pleasure – that which pleases uncalculatingly, in spite of calculation – being the attribute or the emblem of the sovereign being, it has death as its penalty, as well as having it as its means. --Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

Perfect example of the way liberalism rests on the disqualification of "specific political disagreements" and the invocation of "right and moral authority" as transcendentals so that (ideally) nothing but production and circulation ever happens

"To tell the truth, the historian is not unlike the traveler. He tends to linger over the plain, which is the setting for the leading actors of the day, and does not seem eager to approach the high mountain nearby." --Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean

Patrick Boucheron, The Archaeologist and the Historian: Dialogue with Giorgio Agamben (2025) ift.tt/dDuHyt3

Unpublished manuscript by Foucault on hermaphrodites due in September with Gallimard. Preface by Arianna Sforzini and a postface by Éric Fassin. The text is described as ‘substantial’, but more like a long essay or part of a book rather a full manuscript. france24.com/fr/info-en-con…

in a society dominated by utility, useless things become a good to be safeguarded

"it is above all one of Bacon's most profoundly musical paintings." --Deleuze

all rhythms imply the relation of a time to a space, a localised time or if one prefers, a temporalised space. Rhythm is always linked to such and such a place... be that the heart, the fluttering of the eyelids, the movement of a street or the tempo of a waltz. --Henri Lefebvre

The guitar tooone

Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo progressivegeographies.com/2025/06/15/jos…